Behavior Difference Between unbundle and import --exact

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Mon Jul 14 15:07:05 CDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 14:33 -0500, Kevin Christen wrote:
> Matt,
> 
> When I run your script it fails on "hg import --exact ../a/3" with the
> message:
> 
> applying ../a/3
> abort: cannot partially commit a merge (do not specify files or
> patterns)
> 
> 
> But if I replace "hg export 3 > 3" with "hg bundle --base 2 3.hg" and
> "hg import --exact ../a/3" with "hg unbundle ../a/3.hg", it works.
> 
> Any idea why it might work for you but not for me?  Results are the
> same on Windows and Solaris.

I ran this with hg 1.0.1 and reproduced the error message. Probably
fixed this in my big refactoring of file pattern handling since then.

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